Chemical Warfare

This is where you can picture Alc just going “fuck it, I’m tight with enough famous rappers to really get away with something” and made his versatility into some kind of superpower. If there’s only one track that’s a god-tier wig-dislodging epiphany, we’re lucky enough that said track is Three 6 Mafia / Juvenile feature “That’ll Work,” with a hyperventilating synth melody that sounds like a John Carpenter score pushing a 10,000 RPM redline that encourages everybody’s most slippery flows. From the South to the West (plutonium-glow g-prog “On Sight” ft. Dogg Pound and Lady of Rage), from the Midwest (the claustrophobic soul of the cameo-length Eminem-helmed title cut) to NYC (Kool G Rap as your oldest droog on the Clockwork Orangeisms of “Alc Theme”), he makes all regions sound massive, and all the more powerful for it.